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Informationen zum Autor Gareth Stedman-Jones is Professor of Political Science at Cambridge, a Fellow of King's and Director of the Centre for History and Economics. His works include Outcast London and Language of Class. Klappentext In the 1790s, scientific progress, the promise of an international economy, and the revolutions in France and the United States inspired political thinkers such as Thomas Paine and Antoine-Nicolas Condorcet to argue that all citizens should be protected against the hazards of economic insecurity. In An End to Poverty?, Gareth Stedman Jones revisits this founding moment in the history of social democracy and examines how it was derailed by conservative as well as leftist thinkers. Tracing the historical evolution of debates concerning poverty, Stedman Jones makes the case that contemporary social democracy should revive this important, but forgotten strain of progressive thought. He also clearly shows how current discussions about economic issues-downsizing, globalization, and financial regulation-were shaped by the ideological conflicts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung The debate on world poverty and globalisation is one which began two centuries ago in the wake of the French Revolution. In this book! a major historian! Gareth Stedman Jones! traces the history of those arguments and relates them to current discussions and policies.
